[BUG] Squeak Alice not reading MDL files

Leo Burd leoburd at media.mit.edu
Tue Nov 20 14:24:41 UTC 2001


Hello everyone!

We've been trying to use Squeak Alice here at the Computer Clubhouse
(http://www.computerclubhouse.org/) and also found a couple of problems...
Apparently, at least in Squeak 3.1b, the 'roll' command is not working.  We've
tried all the possibilities listed in the quick reference manual and nothing
happened.  Squeak does not recognize parameters such as 'up', 'down', etc. ...

Moreover, we wonder what Teddy commands have been implemented so far.  Is
there any way to bend images and/or extrude them like in the original Teddy
interface?  Is there any way to import Teddy objects into Squeak?  What kinds
of tools can we use to generate Squeak Alice objects?

Finally, we believe it would be very helpful if we could have access to other
Alice Script commands from eToys tiles.  Be able to roll objects and play with
multiple cameras are examples of the things we would love to have.  Is there
any concrete planning about incorporating those features into the system?

Sorry for the large number of questions, but we definitely would like to use
Squeak more and more as part of out activities and the features listed above
would really facilitate that.

All the best,

Leo



----- Original Message -----
From: "karsten droste" <karstendroste at yahoo.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [BUG] Squeak Alice not reading MDL files


>
> --- In squeak at y..., Bert Freudenberg <bert at i...>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Stephen Pair wrote:
> >
> > > The ability for Squeak Alice to read MDL files
> appears to be broken.
> > > When following the instructions in the Alice demo
> to load an MDL file,
> > > sometimes a debugger opens, other times it runs,
> but the resulting actor
> > > has no visible appearance (when looking at the
> "Actor Info" tab).
> >
> > Works fine for me. Where did you get the models? The
> newer ones don't
> > work, the Alice group changed the format.
> >
> > -- Bert
>
> both are right. in squeak 3.0 it works fine and in
> squeak 3.2 it is broken.
>
> in 3.2 the mdl and vrml files start loading. no error
> messages appear. BUT only one object without any
> childs is loaded, there is no picture in the actor
> info and nothing is shown by alice.
>
> karsten
>
>
>
>
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